How to enhance antioxidant intake and nutrition?

Different foods contain antioxidant compounds and sometimes eating several foods at once may enhance the amount of antioxidants your body gets.

• Fruits (raspberry, blackberry, and apple)
• Vegetables (broccoli, tomato, mushroom, and purple cauliflower)
• Legumes (soybean, adzuki bean, red kidney bean, and black bean)

Scientists studied how total phenolic content, ferric reducing antioxidant power, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl, radical scavenging capacity, and oxygen radical absorbance capacity across food categories changed when the foods were eaten together.

The study found that combining specific foods across categories (e.g., fruit and vegetables) was more likely to result in additive antioxidant capacity

So your daily food antioxidant intake may be enhanced by mixing the right categories of food.

 

Reference:

J Agric Food Chem. Synergistic, Additive, and Antagonistic Effects of Food Mixtures on Total Antioxidant Capacities. Wang S, Meckling KA, Marcone MF, Kakuda Y, Tsao R.